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The airline KLM celebrates his 66 anniversary of the start of operations towards Ecuador, country to where flies to the cities of Quito and Guayaquil.
Within a complex panorama for the airline industry, The KLM airline celebrates a new anniversary of its operations in the country and in this sense the airline shared with this space some images to commemorate this day and history of its anniversary 66 of flights in Ecuador.
History of KLM in Ecuador
- The 17 July 1954, KLM arrived in Guayaquil with a Lockheed Super Constellation, being the first European airline to set foot on Ecuadorian soil.
- The route to Amsterdam initially operated once a week. Some years after, KLM introduced a DC-8 aircraft and inaugurated its route to Quito.
- Gradually the company increased frequencies until completing, on 2013, the daily flight Quito – Guayaquil – Amsterdam on a Boeing 777-300.
- As a tribute to the Ecuadorian market, on 1990 KLM named one of its Boeings 747 “City of Guayaquil” and, in the year 2004, baptized its new Boeing 777 as "Galapagos Islands".
Despite the crisis generated by the global pandemic, KLM is proud to commemorate 66 years of uninterrupted operations to Ecuador. In the months when the borders were closed, KLM operated repatriation flights to the Netherlands and has maintained its cargo operation. The company has resumed 3 commercial flights Quito – Amsterdam from June. From August, KLM reconnects Quito and Guayaquil with Europe and the world.
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